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It depends on the machine. IIRC if you have a TPM then no, it boots normally. Otherwise yes, you need to enter a pre-boot PIN (or use a USB pen thingy)

Apparently you can install the Android WINE app onto a Chromebook, so that might be an option too. But yeah some other method might be better. I wonder if LibreOffice runs on the Chromebooks; conversion to .odt has always worked quite well for me including for graphics and things (that said I use office programs rarely) I'm sure at one time a few years ago I heard rumblings about a replacement for A2C that was in the pipeline; I think with the intention that they liaise with MIS providers to have the functionality to send to the boards built in to an MIS. Not sure if that is still happening or fell by the wayside.

I'll hunt you out instead...I'm going for the first time this year and not quite sure what to expect!

Mic is right; all that program does is download/upload files to/from the exams board. It needs no configuration with Progresso per se, you just set an IN and OUT folder for it and download files from Progresso to the OUT folder, upload files to Progresso from the IN folder. I'm not sure what the alternative would be for a school with no Windows at all. Presumably you'd have at least linux running on a server somewhere? I'm sure the A2C Migration program would would work on WINE.

Yes, provided you have a report that's set up to do so (with the proviso that you can't currently view the Year a student was in in previous Academic Years, but you can view the classes. Advanced are working on a method for the Year too.) If you PM me an email address I can send you a report that will do it - or if you explore the reports in the Data and People sections there's almost certainly one with an Academic Year parameter that will do it too.

I don't think they're one package; we liked Call Parents but not Truancy Call so now only have the former.

Ah, sorry. No idea then!

What MIS do you use? This is definitely possible (and pretty easy) in Progresso.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shredder_(Teenage_Mutant_Ninja_Turtles) Youth today...

There's officially no difference between an N and a null value; on the census for example nulls are exported as Ns because that field can't be blank according to the validation rules. It might just be that the primary's MIS does the same thing and fills in an N so that the SEN fields are present in the xml. I'm mildly interested in the discussion actually, as at my school we've never distinguished between "no longer SEN" and "has never been SEN" - they both show as N on every report.

No it's not. Null values will be exported as N's on the census return.

Well I was more thinking "What if I want to hook up SSRS or Power BI". The not-messing-with-stuff-you're-likely-to-break point is fair enough.

Mics way works fine; rather than nested Iif() it's slightly easier to just to leave the "Points" field in the Assessment Scale as being the points for the full grade (so "5+", "5" and "5-" would all be worth 5 points) and then you can just do =Sum(Iif(Fields!Points.Value >= 5, 1, 0)). Matrix and totals still need the same code to get the totals so not actually any easier.

Late reply I know; I've been off for a while. Is this "Capita would really rather you didn't" or "Capita won't give you the logins to the SQL database"?

That sounds annoying. Are many fields in SIMS similarly controlled? Can you not just SQL those records out?

We do have KS5 and successfully do KS5 Assessments with it. Used Progresso for 5ish years with 1750 on roll, however I'm afraid we're in Bradford. You're welcome to visit if you don't get a closer option though.

Sort of doubt it; you can manually edit schema for XML files you've imported to Excel by changing the file extension of a .xlsx to .zip and editing the right file in the archive, but I've never gotten it to work for a CTF or Census file - apparently it only works for really simple XML.

Till January census, basically

The only other way to do it would be to have separate assessment screens for standard teachers and then the Heads of Department. And you'd need a separate screen for each department to prevent them being able to enter into all subjects. Honestly though; just give them the access to do all subjects. Heck, I long ago gave teachers that right and have never had a problem stemming from it; it just makes it all run much more smoothly when one of them is sick or something and the others need to enter data for them.

...since when did CTF files carry exam results? Is this an official version I'm unaware of or just some custom containers that Capita have included?

Use a Matrix instead of a Tablix. Set the Row Group to group on Staff Code, set the Column Group to group on Fields!Code.Value, and set the 'value' cell for that column group to be Fields!Number.Value (no need for your IIf()) This will return one row per staff member, and generate a column for each Phone number type (Home, Mobile, Work, Other etc) in the db, with the number below.

I'm not sure if you can do this for a group of staff. For specific staff, in Behaviour | Behaviour Settings | Configure Behaviour you can set up alerts to be sent to Staff that you select when the event is logged like Year Head or Form Tutor and so on.

Go to Data > Academic Data > Academic Years. The start date of next year is what you're looking for. Bear in mind the rollup of years will only happen if someone's done Academic Progression.

Not natively (although there is "Visa Number" for some reason...) but you can add whatever new field you like. I did think of doing this, both at admissions meetings and parents evenings and so on. My slight scepticism here is; I don't know my NI number, and I don't carry anything that tells me what it is. Lately I could get it via an online payslip, but prior to the last 6 months I'd have to go home to get something that tells me what it is. I imagine it's the same for most people so I'm just not sure whether providing them with a means to fill in the form when you see them will actually get that many of them to do it; because you're then relying on them remembering to do it at home/bring their NI number to the next meeting in school.

You do need NI number yes; we'd need to collect that to make this work (personally I'm skeptical anyone would give it to us but hey ho). Our LEA does a combined claim yes, but apparently there's still something like 8% of eligible kids in this LA that don't take up the FSM.